In late Spring, a handful of Synchronicity Earth team members visited our partner Project Seagrass in West Wales to see their incredible work preserving lesser-known, though vital, seagrass habitats.
These remarkable underwater ecosystems face global threats: since the late 19th century, around a fifth of the world’s seagrass meadows have disappeared. In the UK, we’ve lost up to 92% of our seagrass.
A restorative dip
We drove over to Dale Bay, ready for an early start to explore the coast. We’re told seagrass meadows covered the entire bay 100 years ago, though the plants have since dwindled into sparsity and had all but disappeared.
But, after years of experimentation, in 2020 Project Seagrass, Swansea University, WWF-UK and Pembrokeshire SAC completed a pilot project here. Planting over a million seeds across two hectares, this was the UK’s first major seagrass restoration project.
